There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More George Eliot Quotes
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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